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Turkish breakfasts are elaborate and offer a wide variety of options eaten over the course of an hour or two. Diners are not expected to eat everything on the table. 
Food
In Istanbul, the classic ‘Turkish breakfast’ comes under fire for food waste
A Chinese girl looks upon a table full of food during a "1,000 people dumpling feast" in Liuminying village on the outskirt of Beijing, China, Jan. 27, 2017.
Food
China’s ‘Operation Empty Plate’ targets food waste
Trash bins full of food
Food
Food waste increases during the pandemic — compounding an existing problem
A hand holds two food products in plastic boxes at a market
Food
Finland’s answer to food waste: ‘Best-before’ is actually good later — with a discount
Tomato
Food
New companies want to deliver ugly produce to your door to help eliminate food waste
A man in a white uniform shines a light into the cardboard where cockroaches are being farmed. On his left are a dozen large bugs.
Cockroaches corralled by the millions in China to crunch waste
Two men brewing with bread
Environment
This British company is turning food waste into beer
It's still not the norm at restaurants in Paris to ask for a doggy bag. But the French government wants to change that.
Culture
The French may soon have to accept ‘le doggy bag’
Bulk food bins
Lifestyle
A new store opening in Brooklyn aims to reduce food and packaging waste
From trash to haute cuisine--the ingredients of these servings of white bean and lentil salad with oranges and mint had been headed to the dumpster at a wholesale market before they were slavaged by the staff of Paris' Freegan Pony restaurant.
Environment
At this Paris restaurant, ‘freegans’ fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster
plate scraping
Food
How to get the 40 percent of food the US wastes to 50 million hungry Americans
Moldy oranges
Global Politics
Improving the ‘cold chain’ could help reduce global hunger and lessen the effects of climate change
The total number of wild animals in the world has dropped by more than half in just 44 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund's new Living Planet Report. The report compiled data for more than 10,000 vertebrate species, along with trends in humanity'
Environment
Global wildlife populations have fallen by half — a stat that says it all
A police car is seen smashed and overturned as demonstrators protest against the construction of a waste incinerator in Hangzhou, China.
Environment
What makes people overturn police cars in authoritarian China?
Power From Food Scraps
Development & Education
With global population marching toward 7 billion, a problem: Where’s the food?
Global Politics
Dumpster diving to live off America’s food waste
Environment
America can’t stop wasting food
Environment
Hopeful lunch? When it comes to feeding the world, ‘nothing’ will save us
Business, Economics and Jobs
Food waste tied to food costs